Nice pick. I have a question about NIN. Is it true that Trent Reznor does virtually all of his own music when recording an album, and just has a band for the live shows? I can't remember where I heard that...
Nice pick. I have a question about NIN. Is it true that Trent Reznor does virtually all of his own music when recording an album, and just has a band for the live shows? I can't remember where I heard that...
From what I understand this is the norm. He does a lot of his stuff on the computer, which is why some of the albums have insane drum lines that sane people wouldn't really come up with (go look up the Expert Rock Band for The Perfect Drug for a good visual example).
There are some instances (I think Ghosts I - IV, which is an instrumental album) are done with a small crew, but for the most part my understanding is that he makes it all himself.
Edit: No problem Girly! Thanks for the opportunity, this made my day go by so much faster and it's good fun.
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Nice pick. I have a question about NIN. Is it true that Trent Reznor does virtually all of his own music when recording an album, and just has a band for the live shows? I can't remember where I heard that...
Ya for the most part, Reznor does all the studio work himself
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With the 24th pick in the draft, BF & the BFFs (liamenator) selects The Ramones in the band category.
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One of the founding members of the punk-rock movement, the Ramones burst onto New York's underground music scene in the mid-1970s. The group formed in 1974 in Forest Hills, New York. The founding members -- Joey (Jeffrey Hyman), Dee Dee (Douglas Colvin), Johnny (John Cummings) and Tommy (Tommy Erdelyi) – jettisoned their birth names and adopted the surname “Ramone”, a moniker once used as an alias by Beatle Paul McCartney.
Sporting torn jeans and motorcycle jackets, the Ramones rose to local prominence through their performances at CBGB, a dilapidated club on Manhattan’s Bowery that would later become the epicenter of the punk movement. In 1975, they were signed to Sire Records, an independent label that welcomed their raw, determinedly unpolished sound. Their first release, Ramones (1976), was initially panned by critics, but has since been reappraised as a milestone in the history of modern rock. Featuring songs like “Blitzkrieg Bop”, “Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue”, and “Beat on the Brat”, the Ramones’ tongue-in-cheek anthems of rebellion earned them a solid cult following.
During the next two decades, the Ramones produced over 20 albums. Although few performed well on the charts, their continuous touring schedule nurtured a devoted following. Despite several lineup changes, including the departure of Tommy and Dee Dee and the addition of Marc "Marky" Bell (1978), Richard "Ritchie" Beau (1983) and Chris "C.J." Ward (1989), the Ramones consistently drew large crowds to their high-energy live performances.
Their fierce devotion to their minimalist sound resisted the influence of record producers, who sought make them more palatable to a mainstream audience. However, many contemporary musicians have recently been citing the band as a fundamental influence. On March 19, 2002, the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
Joey Ramone died on April 15, 2001, at the age of 49 of lymphatic cancer. Dee Dee Ramone -- possibly the member of the band most faithful to the punk lifestyle -- died of a suspected drug overdose on June 5, 2002. Johnny Ramone died just two years later, on September 15, 2004, at the age of 55, after fighting prostate cancer.
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With the 25th pick in the draft, habby selects Neil Young in the Canada category.
Neil Young is one of rock and roll’s greatest songwriters and performers. In a career that extends back to his mid-Sixties roots as a coffeehouse folkie in his native Canada, this principled and unpredictable maverick has pursued an often winding course across the rock and roll landscape. He’s been a cult hero, a chart-topping rock star, and all things in-between, remaining true to his restless muse all the while. At various times, Young has delved into folk, country, garage-rock and grunge. His biggest album, Harvest (1972) , apotheosized the laid-back singer/songwriter genre he helped invent. By contrast, Rust Never Sleeps (1979), Young’s second-best seller, was a loud, brawling masterpiece whose title track, an homage to Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, contained the oft-quoted line “Better to burn out than it is to rust.”
With our second pick Tim SJ is pleased to select in the band Category Phish one of the great jam bands of all time.
Also some of the greatest concerts i have been to.. 23 shows for me... At the Millinenum show in Florida they played a 7 1/2 hour set 11 until almost 7 am... It was unreal.. 2 hour sets with only 3 or 4 songs was not unusual they would just jam away.
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Phish was an Americanrock band noted for their extended jam sessions and musical improvisation. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983, the band's four members performed together for over 20 years until their breakup in August 2004. Their music blends elements of a wide variety of genres[1], including rock, jazz, bluegrass, and funk. Each of their concerts was original in terms of the songs performed, the order in which they appeared, and the way in which they were performed.
Although the group received little radio play or MTV exposure, Phish developed a large and dedicated following by word of mouth, via Phish.net (originally a mailing list, then a Usenet newsgroup, now a website), and the exchange of live recordings. Rolling Stone hailed them as "the most important band of the 90s" and stated that the band helped to "... spaw[n] a new wave of bands oriented around group improvisation and superextended grooves."
With our second pick in the draft, the Harry Manbacks are proud to select, from the guitarist category, Mr. Kirk Hammett of Metallica!
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Kirk Lee Hammett (born on November 18, 1962) is the lead guitarist and a songwriter in the band Metallica and has been a member of the band since 1983. Respected among his peers for his guitar style, in 2003 he was ranked 11th in Rolling Stone's list - The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.[1]
You better pick Jonny Greenwood for Most Freakshow Weirdo Amazing Guitarist and Thom Yorke for Most Cantankerous Grumpy Arsehole Singer With the Voice of An Angel.
Your will is my command. Will I be seeing you in Vancouver?
With our 2nd pick in the Music Draft, The Upper Crash proudly selects one of the greatest voices in rock history, from Stone Town, Zanzibar, the immortal Freddie Mercury!
Regarded as one of the greatest singers in rock music, Freddie Mercury possessed a very distinctive voice, including a recorded range of nearly four octaves. Although his speaking voice naturally fell in the baritone range, he delivered most songs in the tenor range. Biographer David Bret described his voice as "escalating within a few bars from a deep, throaty rock-growl to tender, vibrant tenor, then on to a high-pitched, almost perfect coloratura, pure and crystalline in the upper reaches." On the other hand, he would often lower the highest notes during live performances. Mercury also claimed never to have had any formal training and suffered from vocal fold nodules. Spaniard soprano Montserrat Caballé, with whom Mercury recorded an album, expressed her opinion that "the difference between Freddie and almost all the other rock stars was that he was selling the voice." Freddie Mercury was also rated second only to Mariah Carey in MTV's 22 Greatest Voices in Music.
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Mercury is noted for his live performances, which were often delivered to stadium audiences around the world. He displayed a highly theatrical style that often evoked a great deal of participation from the crowd. A writer for The Spectator described him as "a performer out to tease, shock and ultimately charm his audience with various extravagant versions of himself." David Bowie, who performed at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert and recorded the song "Under Pressure" with Queen said of Mercury, "Of all the more theatrical rock performers, Freddie took it further than the rest." ... "He took it over the edge. And of course, I always admired a man who wears tights. I only saw him in concert once, and as they say, he was definitely a man who could hold an audience in the palm of his hand. He could always turn a cliché to his advantage."
...and let's not forget that Summer evening in 1985 at Wembley Stadium when, with only 17 minutes to work with, Freddie Mercury delivered the single greatest performance in rock history in front of a crowd of 72,000... and 1.5 billion worldwide (televised).
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One of Mercury's most notable performances with Queen took place at Live Aid in 1985, during which the entire stadium audience of 72,000 people clapped, sang, and swayed in unison. Queen's performance at the event has since been voted by a group of music executives as the greatest live performance in the history of rock music. The results were aired on a television program called "The World's Greatest Gigs". In reviewing Live Aid in 2005, one critic wrote, "Those who compile lists of Great Rock Frontmen and award the top spots to Mick Jagger, Robert Plant, etc. all are guilty of a terrible oversight. Freddie, as evidenced by his Dionysian Live Aid performance, was easily the most godlike of them all."
Darn you, FanIn80! I had him as my songwriter
With our next pick, Team Phlegmp3 is proud to select David Bowie in the Male Singer category.
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David Bowie is an Englishmusician, actor, producer, arranger, and audio engineer. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is regarded as an influential innovator, particularly for his work through the 1970s. Although he released an album and numerous singles earlier, David Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in the autumn of 1969, when his space-age mini-melodrama "Space Oddity" reached the top five of the UK singles chart. After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era as a flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single "Starman" and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona epitomised a career often marked by musical innovation, reinvention and striking visual presentation.
